If I Were You - 363: New Years Eve
Episode Date: December 31, 2018In this episode we discuss our cars, our holidays, and our New Years resolutions. Happy 2019, everybody!See omny.fm/listener for privacy information....
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If I were a Jew
Pudnos
Pudnos, just what I should do
Advice from two fools
Yeah, I just don't know if I should trust these lying Jews
But they've helped me before
And I need help some more
I need to know what to do
I need to know what to do
Oh, if I were a Jew
Show, yeah
Whoa
If I were a Jew show, very nice
It's funny, he said his name is Martin
But then he said, my name is Martin
I'm not anti-Semitic, I just like the show
Shout out to the helmet boy, the little fucker
So shout out to the helmet boy, I guess
He's out of kind of like a Scandinavian Mumford and son
Yeah, I think he was trying to do like Queen
Like Freddie Mercury, I want to break free
Style, if I were a Jew
Style
So it was like a parody of a satire of an anti-Semitic rant
And I loved the hell out of it
Yeah
How was, I should say we're recording this
It's Sunday, December 30th
We're just going to record and upload this shit
New Year's Eve tomorrow
New Year's Eve Eve, Adam's Eve
The penultimate New Year
I haven't seen you since you drove across the country
Then went up, state, went to Connecticut
Basically two weeks of constant moving
Was it insane, was it fun, was it easy
Was there any funny story that happened
Were you mugged, were you robbed
Did you run out of gas in a funny way
It was pretty insane, I would say
I guess like immediately
The first 20 minutes into our road trip
It became very clear that the suspension of my car
Was dangerously bad
You never want to find something out
One step into a marathon
Yeah, so and I like got my car tuned up
There was a problem with the starter
There was, the brakes were real worn
I got it like a full tune up
And I went to the mechanic and I was like
I'm just, this is when I was picking it up
I'm just trying to get it to drive across the country
He's like, you're doing what
I'm just trying to get it to do the hardest thing a car can do
Just get me to the point where I can do the hardest thing
That the car can do
He's like, you're driving it how far
Like about 3,000 miles
And he literally said, oh shit
Oh shit, that's really far
Oh shit, 300 miles
No, no, no, 3,000 miles
Oh no
And I told him, he was like
I didn't not tell this to Jill
But he was, I was like, what are the odds
What are the chances I can get across the country
And he was like 50-50
Wow, that's not bad actually
So that was, so we're driving, weeping LA
And the car is like, it's wobbling
Almost like a, like a rowboat, a drift in the ocean
And it's like one of those things where like
Is the street fine? You really just hope it's the street
Yeah, I was really hoping it was the street
But it was so very flat
And we were like rocking back and forth
Like we were getting hit by waves
So I don't know anything about cars
What is suspensions?
I mean, I don't know anything about it really either
But I think the idea is, it's kind of like
When you go over bumps, the suspension is supposed to
Cradle your car in a way that like
Allows like the wheels to go over bumps
Without you really feeling it
That's right, like a steady cam
Yeah
Exactly
So I didn't have that
Every time we went over a pebble
It felt like we were going to be thrown from the truck
And end up in a ditch
We felt every bump
Instead of like a spring in your step
Your legs were stiff the entire time
So every time there was a slight uptick
You felt it through the car, up your ass
Into your spine
Correct him on your arm
Into your jaw
White knuckling across Kansas
Which is really supposed to be just like
Put a brick on the gas and you can go
It's straight
But I was constantly afraid
That we were going to get knocked off the road
Which, and Jill's like a good driver
But she's never driven a car that was as old or bad as mine
Yeah, a boat of a car
So I drove literally the entire time
It was a bad car
Yeah, it was a bad car
I mean, it was a great car
I love my car so much
My car did an incredible job
All things considered
I was a bad guy for making my car do that
Yeah
I don't play in the car
The car is great
You basically hopped on your great uncle and you said
Let's run a 10K
Go on, Morty
Yeah, Morty
It's just Marty and drag
The other thing, like when we were
So we had to, part of our road trip was
Over the Colorado Rockies
And I had my, like
I had my foot was cramping
Because I was giving it so much gas
Trying to get it over the mountain
And it was topping out at like 42
Yeah, slower than, isn't there like a speed limit
But in the opposite direction
The minimum was 40
It was 40
A speed minimum
I was barely going the minimum
It really felt like at any moment
I could just start rolling back down
Was it ever a point where you're like
This is not worth the stress
Let's just park the car, kill it
And take a flight or something
No, it was always
It was always gonna, it was always alright
But there were times when I was like
Our ETA says we're gonna be getting here
At 730
But like I know it's gonna be closer to 8
Because I have to drive 5 miles per hour slower
Than the speed limit
Which is what the traffic estimate is based on
Yeah, there should be like a ways thing that says
Like actually I'm going 42
Not 65
So adjust the ETA accordingly
Piece of shit car ways
And then you get to the other side of the country
And you sort of, you get to a pier
You look into the water and then you nod
And you put the cinder block on the gas pedal
And just send it into the ocean, right?
That's like the final, the Viking funeral for your car
I gave my car a Viking funeral
I lit it a flame and I drove it off a pier in New York
All your stuff still in it
Shit, shit, shit
Fuck, actually 9-1-1
Somebody did something fucking so stupid to my car
I'm gonna blow out the fire
I had a similar but less high stakes version of that story
When my car was being tuned up
The other day basically
I took it in because, you know
The wrench light turns on like 5,000 miles ago
And I'm like, I'm sure it's fine
Nothing's that bad with a car
It still feels fine
I'm leasing like a 2017
So like how bad can something be
You had the check engine light on for 5,000 miles
Yeah, it wasn't check engine
It was a wrench
Which seemingly was just like general maintenance
Got it, like it's due for a
Yeah, an oil or a tire or something or other
And also like the tire pressure light is on
For several thousand miles
I ignore these little warning signs
Like a stubborn man just like
Whatever, it's fine
The car can still move
So I take it in because I get these
I get these coupons in the mail
That's like $30 off
Your oil change or $20 off a tire alignment
Again, I don't know what these things are
Cabin filter, whatever
So I bring it into the dealership
And I'm like basically
Yeah, do whatever it needs
I don't know, it's been 15,000 miles
Does it need an oil change?
Does it need this?
And they're like, yeah
We'll give it an oil change for sure
And then we'll take a look at it
And let you know if you need anything else
I'm like, okay, great
I'll be back in an hour
I come back in an hour and he says
He's crying
Yeah
We tried to fucking save her
It wouldn't take
We had to bike a funeral, the bitch
Man
How?
He's like
So there was a nail in a tire
The tire failed the alignment test
You need to change your cabin filter
And the air filter is also bad
Do you want to change the stuff?
And I'm like, how much is that?
Because I was like
I knew the oil change was 79
Down to like 49
He's like, that's another $180
I'm like, okay
How do I know that stuff actually happened?
He's like, I mean, I can show you the paperwork
He shows me the paperwork
It's just numbers on a piece of paper
I don't understand any of it
My friend was texting me
He's like, try to like haggle with him
Try to like go shop around
I'm like, I don't want to do any of this stuff
Sure, fine
You can do whatever you want to the car
I gave him another like $230
And then left
I don't know what they did
How they did it
Whether I can do it online for free
Yeah
I don't know that shit either
That like every time I go to
I always get my oil changed at like Jiffy Lube
Or Valveline or one of those things
And they like pull out a filter
Like my air filter
And they're like, this is what it looks like
You want a new one
I don't know
Maybe they're
Maybe that
It's next to the engine
So maybe that gets instantly dirty
And you're just counting on me being stupid
And being like, yeah, that looks brown
I want the clean one
It's basically a stupidity tax
I have to pay for not doing any homework
You know, man, I'm a comedy writer
Sure
Change the cabin filter, I guess
Because I don't want to stand here in Wikipedia
What a cabin filter does
And how to change it
I don't have the time
Here's $5,000
I'm going to bring my car in every year
Till I die
And I don't want to think about this anymore
You're really emasculating me
Keep the car
I'm going to do Uber
Fuck
Shit
All right
Enough catching up about our shitty ass cars
Although you're going to keep your car, right?
Yeah, I'm going to keep my car
Yeah, I'm going to keep it
I'm going to keep it
I went back and forth
But she got me all the way to New York
I kissed the hood of my car
And I realized I love it
Everything at this point is just gravy, right?
Like, you can't ever expect it to do anything
If it dies, it's like, you're not surprised
You're happy at this point
Yeah, she led a good life, a great life
That was her second trip
Driving across the country
Her third trip across the country
When she did on the back of a truck
Would you get a new car
Or would you just go until this one dies?
I don't think I would
I think I'll go until this one dies
But I guess I'll like
I don't know, I can't
I wonder if it dies on the side of the road
And then I give up
Or is it like, you know, I check
How much the suspension is to fix
And it's $2,000
And I'm like, that's pretty stupid
Maybe I should fix that
Yeah, at this point everything totals it
Because a car being totaled
Is just more than it'll cost to fix
Like, there's the value of the car
So if you even just like hit a flat tire
It's technically totaled
Yes, and I mean, the engine is bad
I'm having the same problem with like, my dad
Like, I don't know if I should just like
Continue keeping him alive at this point
Or like, because he's like, he's fine
He's healthy, but he like got a cough
And I'm like, should I just fucking
Push this old bastard into the ocean?
That's not the same problem
Well, I went to do it and he beat me up
He kicked my ass
Okay, so that's even sadder
I guess, because it's like
He abuses you, but also you're so weak
That he can do that
He's weakened me
He's weakened me, yeah
And you want him to die
Alright, let's get to the questions
You guys, podcasts after all
Yep, yep
If I were you, last episode of
2018, let's finish with a bang
Yep
This one is from a guy
Who's taking a train
From LA to Portland
So we'll call him Marty
Very cool
Marty writes
Dear Jacob Amir
So for the holidays, my family decided to meet me
On the west coast for Christmas
And even went so far as to buy me a train ticket
I have never been on a train
So they told me to take
They told me to take a goddamn
It'll take a goddamn day and I have to get to Oregon
I nearly lost my shit
I only live in the high desert
East of LA
How is this fair to me?
Anyways, back to the situation
Every time I travel, I make it fun
By doing weird random things
For an example, when I fly
I usually pretend I don't know English
After I get their security
Well, on this train I decided
To switch it up by being overly social
And talking to everybody
More than a comfortable amount
I ended up chatting with this woman
For most of the ride as I was going to Oregon
And she was heading to Washington
I made a backstory trying to keep it believable
Oh dear
Oh god, I'm melting
I made a backstory
You gotta change your air filter, dude
Trying to keep it believable
But also a little unique
Because I thought it was a funny thing to do
Mostly, I lied about just
Serving parole and how I was in prison
A few years ago
I'm 25 now
I also lied about what I do for work
As I am in school and my actual job
Is laying this shit
When it was time for me to get off the train
She gave me her number and told me to call her
When I went back to California
What should I do?
Should I tell this woman I did a non-stop bit
For the day?
Should I just ghost this bee?
Or should I keep this fake life going
Limit your advice to these options
Please do give real advice
Thanks, love, Marty
That actually does sound like something
Marty would do
Just a nice good old fashioned
Bit between you and an unsuspecting other
Yeah
It's not really a bit when it's just a lie
Right?
I've done a bit just for yourself
Yeah, a bit takes two people
Going back and forth playing a game
She was getting to know somebody
And you were being a liar
Why don't you
If you keep this bit up for the rest of your life
It's not a bit
The bit then becomes who you used to be
Your previous life
The ultimate bit
Bit becomes life
I was just joking, joking, joking
And now it's been a year, four years, eight years
And this is me now
I have a family, bit is not over
And I'm dead
That's the theory about Tupac
He was like
He was an actor
And he like
Did
He was doing rap almost as like a role
As an actor
Oh really? So you're telling me Tupac's
Rap career was a bit?
I don't know if I believe it
But I do know that that's a thing
That's really cool. Isn't Drake kind of doing a bit too?
Like he grew up to be
He grew up as like a comedy actor
And then he's like I want to try to be a rapper
His character in Degrassi
White wanted to be a
Rapper
And then he did what his character
In Degrassi wanted
I think the realest Drake is the Degrassi guy
Yeah
I remember meeting somebody who like
Happened to go to elementary school or high school with Drake
And she was like yeah Drake was like
You know like kind of like this wannabe
Rapper who just kept it going
And now is the number one rapper in the world
But like if he ever runs into like an old high
Schooler of his then they just don't
Respect him anymore
That's really
I don't even know if it's that interesting or funny
It's just Drake
That's why he's Drake
And you're not
Anyway what should this guy do? Stop the bit
Keep it going or ghost the beat
I guess I would ghost
I probably would never
Meet up with this person again
I don't think you'd get out of it
I don't think you'd be like oh yeah I was being
Devil the entire way to Portland
When you thought you got to know somebody
That was wrong
Or if you are gonna meet up with her
What you do is gradually admit
To the stuff over time
So it's not like the whole thing was
Alive it's like I'm down to meet up
Just so we're 100% clear I didn't really
Go to jail
And then like two months later that's not really my
Job and then four months after
That like I don't actually serve
Parole and by the
Time all the lives have been debunked
She likes the real you
It's a cross-dissolved bit ending
And also or like
The real me is
A guy that does these
Classic bits
So next time we're on a train
I might be
A vagabond
Going to work in an
Oil field in
Eastern Washington
Or you say okay
We can meet you and meet up
And then we can meet my family
But when we meet my family I'm gonna do a bit
And that bit's gonna be that I'm like
A fucking student
And I tricked your ass into meeting them
They're gonna believe it
Yeah you do like
Machine gun fire bits
She doesn't know who the real person is anymore
Yeah you're just constantly switching back and forth
To the point where you don't even understand
Who you are anymore
That the realist you is just a bit
Not only you've changed your name
And identity you don't remember who you are
That seems like
The plot to a
Mildly interesting movie
A guy who leads a double life to the point where he's
Lied to himself
And now he doesn't remember who he actually is
Oh that's pretty cool
It's called
Catch me if you can't
Yeah that's good
Liar liar liar
So it's three liars he's lying to himself
It's not a lie if you believe it
It's like basically the George Costanza thing
Where it's like if you genuinely believe you're a different person
You are
And then he gradually does become that different person
We don't know who to believe because he doesn't know who to believe
Write this down
Why we're recording it
Oh sorry I got an assistant in the last couple weeks
Write that down
Edgar
Yeah Edgar's four
And he's
That's a child laborer
He's getting pre-k credit
For what?
He doesn't have to do shapes
Where are his parents?
His parents keep
Fucking calling me
They miss their son
Yeah they miss Edgar
They do and I get that
Because he's incredibly affordable
Well it sounds like
You have him working for you
For pre-k credit which is a real thing
People say like having a child
Is expensive like Edgar's saving me cash
I'm so surprised you taught him to write
So he's like
He's like sort of like
Court stenography
He has audio notes mostly
He has an iPad with a really thick pink case
That's not very
That's not very tasteful Edgar
It's like thick
Thick and plastic case
So that he doesn't like get sauce on it
Right does he get
Sauce on a lot of things
Edgar's a messy little fucker
But I love him nonetheless
I don't think you should swear
Oh yeah earmuffs Edgar
Hold on his dad is calling me
You said earmuffs so late
Hello
I don't understand
Edgar's dad speaks Hebrew?
No he doesn't I pretend that I'm like
An Israeli foreigner whenever he calls
Like I can't quite understand what he's saying
You're the man Blumenfeld
Wait till you hear my New Year's resolutions
Let's do more fucking bits like this
Um alright we got some more questions
But let's take a break right now we'll be back
For more Q's and A's after
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Hey Jake do you have any
Oh it's a lift dude
Mom I'm coming
Gross
You know what I
Do and I think you should too
Because we are going on tour
We're finally hitting the road again
What we're finally doing is talking about these shows
Because they're almost sold out
And we haven't mentioned them on the podcast yet
Oh that's true
Yeah we sort of recorded before we left
And then
Promoted the shows on social media
There's only like 45 tickets left for the New York show
So we're announcing it now
A little late and we apologize
That March 7th in New York
At Gramercy Theater March 9th
In DC
Black Cat I believe it's called
That's not where we did the last time
We've done Gramercy we haven't done that
Black Cat the DC venue
Yeah but we've done Gramercy as part of a college humor
Show we've never done it on our own
A solo dolo show
Yeah we have Natto
This could be like our first shows in a year
Yeah that's crazy the last show that we did
Like in
Amsterdam? It must be
Edgar do you have my schedule?
Edgar give him a break
Give him a snack let him watch a movie
He's eating a plum
He's eating a plum and he's watching a cartoon
That's adorable
I guess it's been a 12 hour day
So I feel for the kid
Jesus
The tickets are available for both of those shows
At jacadamere.com
Again not a lot of tickets left for the New York show
We're gonna sell that one out very soon
Grab them while they're hot
Where do people do that?
Jacadamere.com
Yes put some links there
Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
Yeah you know what
I had like four
But I can't remember any of them
Except for one that
Which is to write shit down
Which is to get myself an Edgar
I want to learn how to lead climb
You want a what how to who where?
I want to learn how to lead
Climb
Which is what?
I used to climb together
I still climb
But I do bouldering
Which you know
Bouldering is no ropes
You got the pads
You can top out or climb down
That's right you don't go very high
And then there's top rope
Those are gyms where you're on a rope
You climb up, let go
You get belayed down
Lead climbing is kind of like top rope
But you go up with the rope
It's not secure to anything
You secure it as you climb
Jesus Christus
It's all the fear of bouldering
It's like a little
Fearful mixture
But I like sport climbing
I like climbing outside with ropes
And lead climbing
Is kind of the way to learn how to do that
And you can do it outside?
I would like to
To learn to lead climb and to do a sport climbing trip
Outside
Mine's going to sound
Nasty by comparison
I guess that makes sense
Considering you have a four year old indentured
Yeah
Anyone want to kill your dad
I wanted to do those
To read
To read less
Read less
I feel like I'm so bogged down
Into this twitter
And the instagram
And I'm freaking obsessed with social media
That's good
So you want to get off social media
I want to do more of that
Just because it's fun to be plugged in
And online
But what really gets in the way
Is this nagging feeling that I should be reading
Books and magazines and shit like that
And that's that shit I don't like
I don't read it dad
You don't read it
So you don't have to say you're going to read less
Because you already don't
When I'm watching tv
And obviously I want to do that
I want to read more like that
If it's like a basketball game
To read the score
But I don't want to do
I don't want to like better myself
Why are you getting mad at me
You're discussing your resolution
But you're shouting it at me
Edgar is also starting to
Not disapproving
I feel like you're a bad influence on Edgar
Me?
I really think you and Edgar are teaming up against me
My nearest resolution
I hesitate
I hesitate to even say it now
Because I'm feeling a little bit on edge
And like you guys are attacking me
For the ones that I have already
I am a little bit
So like definitely actually
I would advise you to tread lightly
I was going to punch either you or Edgar
As hard as I could at one point this year
That's not a resolution, that's a threat
Okay
And making it against Edgar is actually
Alright
Edgar's all crying
And you probably are too
Oh my god, this is so fucked up
No, I'm crying
You are crying, you're the only one
I don't even think Edgar's crying
I'd wager Edgar's not afraid of you at all
Ah! He kicked me in the frickin' shin
Get him Edgar
Get him
Alright
Let's try to answer some more questions
We only did one so far
Here's one from a lady
In college
We'll call her
Sarah Lawrence
Sarah Lawrence
writes
I've been binging your show for a year
And I'm almost caught up, love what you're doing
Anyway, I'm a 20 year old female in college
And I've been hooking up with this guy
For a month and things are going great
Well, not that great
Because every time I sleep over at his place
And wake up in the morning I have a sore throat
With those dry eyes and a cough
It took me a minute to recognize that
He uses down pillows and a down blanket
I'm incredibly allergic and I've always been
So my question is
Should I tell the guy that I'm spending the night at his place
Um, sorry
Should I tell him that spending the night at his place
Makes me physically sick
Can I bring my own pillow?
Help, what we have going on is pretty chill
And it's starting to move on to something more serious
Love, the girl who's not down
With the down
Very good
Very, very good
What a sweet question
It is a really sweet question, I can't believe
She would even consider suffering through
Not having a pillow
Yeah, what do you say that you're constantly getting a cold
Just to avoid him
Changing his pillow for you
Yeah, he'll be happy to do that
Yeah, or this is like a good test
Because if he's not happy to do that
Then he's a monster
Right, this is a very, very reasonable request
You say, I
You know, you know, should you say
Can you change the pillow or should you say like
Hey, I don't like
That pillow, I'm gonna bring my own
And then see if he says
No, don't even worry about it
I'll get you a new pillow
Or should she say, hey I can't sleep over there
Unless you change this shit
I think you would say
Hey
I don't like the pillow because then it sounds like
You're high maintenance or something
You say, hey I am allergic to your pillows
And comforter
So we either have
We either have to sleep at my place
Did she say that she has a place
Yeah, she has a place, he has a place
Alright, so we have to sleep at my place
Or
I can
Buy myself a pillow
For your house
So it's like
You need to change the pillows
I'll pay for it
You need to change your pillows, we have to sleep here
Down is just like feathers, right?
I think there's different kinds of down
There's like, there's a synthetic
Down and there's
The authentic down
Yeah, but like a bag of feathers is basically
What his pillow is
It's not like necessarily real feathers
It's like, it's faux feathers
Foe-thers
So tell the guy, but then additionally
I think as a society
Starting now, we should start giving
The word down
A different name
Like it's just a confusing name
That it's also the material and also
The opposite of up
We can come up with something new
It doesn't have to be called down
Fluff
That's perfect
You're allergic to fluff
But now we have to change the name of the marshmallow spread
Because we don't want it to be like this
That could be marshmallow spread
Yeah, but it should really have a name
So we'll call the marshmallow spread
Like you're stepping up
No, that's harder
Don't write that down, Edgar
Edgar, no!
Erase it
Edgar has a really cute small gun pointed at me
Alright, next question
This one's a bit of a doozy, so see if you can wrap your cock around it
I'll be able to
Do we have another lady's name?
Let's go college themed
Vassar, an all-girl school
But not really a name
Vassar, Veronica Vassar
Yeah
Right, I'm a 24 year old girl
And I need your guys help
One of my ex best friends catfished
My boyfriend and tried to
Get him to agree to cheat on me
The catfishing friend
Is a gay man
Who was pretending to be a straight girl
Disguised his number using an app
And began texting my boyfriend
Trying to get him to agree to sleep with
Quote unquote her
Under the guise that she
Used to know him
My boyfriend declined the offer
And ended up blocking the number
After the catfisher sent nudes
The catfisher then proceeded
To message our friend group behind my back
Trying to tell everyone
That my boyfriend was attempting to
Cheat on me and then
Messaged me the same thing
My boyfriend and I were able to
Expose the catfisher to my friend group
And I immediately blocked
All ties with his catfish friend
But here's the issue
Two of our mutual best friends
Both agreed that the catfisher
And what he did was wrong
But they refused to do anything about it
And insist that their friendship
With both of us continues as normal
The catfisher has not even attempted
To apologize even though
The incident happened a couple months ago
Now my friend group continues
To plan events and parties like
We all used to and everyone invites everyone
And acts like I'm the rude and distant one
When I decline because I don't want to see
The catfisher. These two best friends
Of mine have been my closest friends
For the past 10 years and have always been
Such kind and considerate friends
That they insist what they're doing
Right now is not abandoning anyone
So I need some advice
What would you do in my situation?
Should I turn my back on them and by extension
The whole group and start anew
Should I pretend that the catfisher isn't there
And try to function as if nothing happened
Or some other top tier plan that you fellows
Come up with please help
Thanks love Veronica Vassar
Fuck that's hard
That's really hard
Yeah this guy basically tried to
Entrap your boyfriend and it
Failed but he still like tried to
Out him. You're like that's right
He tried to hook up with me
But it's still sort of winning
On his end because he
He's gonna get to keep his friends
And you might
Not hang out with him anymore
So he gets he's what that that's
Wrong I think
Two things one your friends are being
Bad that's bad they're being bad
Two though
What do you like
If you turn your back and start anew
That's like that is letting him win
I feel like I feel like what you want
To do is take a little ownership
Over this thing and like
Go to all the events be
Confident hang around try
To make the catfisher feel uncomfortable
Yeah you want to basically
Get to a position
Where he doesn't feel too comfortable
But he seems like a crazy
Guy that doesn't give a shit
He fucking tried to entrap
Your boyfriend failed and then it's like
Oh well alright on to the next at least
I tried it's like whoa you shouldn't
Have done that it's just really hard to
Like leave a friend group entirely
Like I'm my instinct I do want to just be
Like hey fuck all these people they're all
Fine but
It's hard to find brand new friends
Yeah imagine you're in a friend group
Before like you and the twin innovation
Crew and one of them
Really fucks over the other one
And then they're like
But do you
Ever have the persons back so much
That it's like what they did like if
Mike fucked over Dave so much that
You no longer hang out with Mike
Or you're always like hey Mike didn't do anything
To me so I'm fine with it
It would depend on what it was
But if you
I mean unless
I don't know
I don't
Think I could I don't know
It's hard to take on someone's beef
If they did nothing to you
But just did something bad to a friend
Especially if you're closer to the friend
Yeah but then there's also
Like this thing that he did was bad
But all incredibly creepy
It's not just like
Hey
This guy cheated on
My girlfriend or like
You know something like kind of like a one
Off thing stole some money
Did something that was like a big no no
But you can like
Get down to the root of it and figure out what was up
Yeah
He made this weird campaign
Where he took on a fake identity
And tried to like so discord among everybody
That's right
He tried to so discord
It's so batshit crazy
That I mean I guess I'd
Want to keep on hanging out with him just to get
Just to keep my eye on him
That's cool
You act like that shit gets you off
Or you just switch it around
You try to do like some crazy maneuver
Because it's open seizing
You have carte blanche access to fuck with him back
This is war
That's right
Some sort of intervention, some sort of catfishing
I vote you hang out and you're just like
Confident like you belong in the friend group
And this guy doesn't you know there's a party
You obviously show up with the boyfriend
You say hey to everybody
And then like you say hey to this
The catfisher and you
Ask like you know if the girl he
Pretended to be was named Phoebe
You say hey is Phoebe coming tonight
That's good
And like move on into the next room
So the best revenge is just pretending
You don't give a shit about this guy
He's not going to take your friends
You're still going to be around with your friends
And you can just make
Snyder remarks at him
That's what I would do
Living well is the best revenge
As long as you can be kind of catty about it too
I've never like lost a friend
Due to like one epic thing
Like a fight that splintered a friendship forever
Have you ever like lost somebody
Because of a thing like that
Yeah in high school
I lost a friend
Because of that
There was like
It was between it was over a girl
Of course
Of course
I broke up a relationship
And then chose to date the girl
Instead of trying to make amends with a friend
And
That was it
Still to this day no contact
Yeah but I mean it like
It wasn't just that
I think there was like other factors
Like we were going to college
Different tracks in our life anyway
Yeah it was already splintering
So you just sort of kicked him further away
Yeah I think now
In my older
In my older life I would
I think I would try to work anything out with like
My friends at this point
I've like
You're chosen
Yeah I've chosen the friends that I have
Alright last question
Yeah
This one's from a 21 year old lady
From the great white north
So let's just choose
Classic
British Columbian University
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Emily Carr
And that's not like anything I looked up
Did Edgar pull that?
Edgar sort of saw
Where this whole day was going
And he like fed me that line
He's really on top of his shit for a four
Yeah definitely
Yeah he's not four years old
He's just a four out of ten
I see he's an ugly six year old
Yeah
Alright
Emily Carr writes
I've never been in a relationship
And I've only had a few drunken hookups
While I was solo traveling in Europe
A couple weeks ago I decided that I was sick
Of
That I was sick of being a forever alone
Ugo and went on a tinder date
To see if I could find a nice man
Little to no surprise
Looking for hookups and I wasn't very interested
Until I got sick of it
And gave in
I'm talking to this guy
Who at the time seemed understanding
That I am not the most experienced
So he made plans to meet up
He came over to my house
And I started to panic
I was racing around the house
Moments before he knocked
And once he came in I was a nervous mess
I started to sweat
So we just put on a movie and sat down
He would stop at any time
If I wasn't feeling okay
But clarified the fact that since
He was driving 25 minutes to my house
That he wasn't going to come over
If we weren't gonna do anything
So when he asked me if I wanted him to leave
I felt bad and said no
We started to kiss
So we went up to my room
Things started to get heated
And I was giving him a BJ
My first ever sober BJ
And I thought I was doing okay
But he didn't have any comments in the past
All of a sudden he says
Okay you can stop now
I'm gonna see myself out
And just walked out of my house
I texted him after
Asking him what happened
And he said it was bad
You were too nervous
I'm not interested anymore
I felt like an actual piece of trash
On the side of the highway
I understand that maybe I wasn't the best
But I can assure you that
If he did was okay
Would you ever walk out on a girl
If she's not giving you that great of a BJ
Should I continue in my quest
To find a good man that will treat me right
Or are all men trash
Thanks
Sorry for the long email
Emily Carr
Good lord you take the first stab at that one
That one makes me mad
Well is anything he did good
Sorry is anything that he did fine
I would say
Next thing in saying I'm not coming over
Unless we're gonna do something
Is bad
I mean that's awful
Sign number one don't invite that guy over
Screenshot that
Make that your new profile picture
If you match with this guy
Swipe left
Stopping her in the middle
Of a BJ and saying
You can stop now
I'm gonna see myself out
Absolutely awful
Psychologically damaging
Bad also
Texting and saying
Hey how was it and he says
It was bad you were too nervous
I'm not interested anymore
Is that the worst of the three
I would say the first one is the worst
Of the three because that
That set the tone for the entire thing
When she was nervous
She felt too guilty
Asking him to leave
So she got herself
Into a situation
Based on his
On his like
I don't know
Framing of their hangout
Where she didn't feel comfortable
Saying no
And then would you ever walk out
On a girl if she's not giving you that
Great of a BJ no that's a trash move
He's a trash man
Do you think what he did was okay no
But I wanted to answer this question right before 2019
Because this can be a good New Year's resolution
It doesn't mean you should give up entirely
Because not all men are trash
No 80% that's
A lot but it's not all
How do you avoid
Trash like in the future
Somebody sends you that text
Maybe you say okay never mind
I don't want you to come over with any expectations
Don't come over never mind leave
Yeah I think most men
Are trash
But there are some
That are so stupid that they let you know
Trash really early
This guy did
He's in like the
50% so say
80% of men are bad
I feel like 50% are like
Outwardly bad in a very noticeable way
Oh that's a good New Year's resolution
When somebody tells you that
They're bad in a very outwardly noticeable way
Cut them off right there
If someone tells you they're a piece of shit believe them
Yeah I think that's a famous quote
Not with the piece of shit part but the other part
Somebody tells you who they are
Believe them
And it's a good New Year's resolution for
Dudes not to be
A piece of trash
There's a small
Glint of hope even in this guy
Because he
I like to think that
Maybe part of him
Wasn't enjoying this BJ because he knew
She was nervous and he said that
But there's a way to say that
Politely you know like
You're not ready for this
Or like I can tell you're not into it
Let's not push it
Like that's good behavior
But shaming also like
Saying that and using it
To shame her is awful
Yeah not communicating that until
She asks you all so bad
So there's a sweet thing in here
If you mine away all the garbage
Which was stopping her when
You've realized she was very nervous
And panicked before you got there
But what you did and how you went about it
Was bad
You also did everything to make her
Nervous so then you can't be like
This is awful you're nervous
Was it the
Ultimatum I texted on my way over
That didn't help the situation
Yeah fuck you piece of shit
How about she sends us this guy's picture
We'll put it up on our website
That way we can sort of publicly out
Slash shame this individual
So that nobody else ever deals
With him ever again
Now we're talking dude
Edgar write that down
Yeah
We're gonna catch all the scum out there
It's gonna be like some sort of robin hood
You and me Edgar
Morality
Alright that's it that's our time
We gotta go ring in the new year
And so do you guys thanks so much for listening
This entire not just this episode but this whole year
Yeah party hard tonight have fun everybody
Should we tell people the big difference
This episode see if they realize see if they notice
Oh yeah
This is the first episode we had to record
Remotely Jake is still in New York
We wanted to still record a podcast episode
So we're doing it using state of the art
Technology Facebook audio
And we're gonna splice it together
FaceTime audio not Facebook audio
Yeah FaceTime audio
Let us know if you realize that
And not like in a cool way like I knew
Something was off I need
I need the actual response
I need some verified responses
That say yes I realized or no
I didn't I couldn't tell it all
That'd be great What do you think most people realize
Or most people didn't I'm gonna say most people didn't
Wow but then we'll say that they did
Mm-hmm
Yeah because people
People don't like to admit
That they were duped even in a passive
In consequential way
That's right Edgar write that down
That's not
That wise Edgar
Wouldn't you have seen Edgar
If we were in the same room too
Yeah that could have
Either way happy 2019
What are you gonna do for New Years
I'm gonna go to meet up with my brother
Maybe Jeff Dave
And we're gonna go to Jill's friends
Apartment
Classic apartment party
What's your plan
I'm probably not doing anything
Because the very next day early in the morning
I'm taking a family trip I have to get on a flight
So we're doing a first through the fifth trip
To Arizona
No shit Yeah
Where at
I'll give you the exact coordinates offline
But just as a little hint
Here's the first two letters of the address
Never mind I gotta run but
One, two, and then the city
Is FL
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This closing theme song was this techno song
Shit let me pull up who wrote it
Edgar you piece of shit
Whoa sorry I shouldn't
Scream Maddie
Maddie did a little boom bop head nod
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For dad as
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